Discover out who we’re selecting to come back out on high on the closing main occasion of the offseason.
Final up to date on December 4th, 2024
This weekend, 30 males and 30 ladies will descend upon Dubai for the ultimate main competitors of the calendar 12 months.
- This 12 months the Dubai Health Championship moved its invitation course of to be almost totally primarily based on the net qualifier, so the composition of the sector is totally different than earlier years.
General, three males and 4 ladies who competed as people on the 2024 CrossFit Video games will step onto the competitors flooring in Dubai. In whole, there are eight males and 11 ladies who’ve been to the CrossFit Video games as people within the discipline this weekend.
Ladies’s Division
The battle for the rostrum will doubtless come down to 5 ladies, three Video games veterans, a Video games rookie, and a younger gun.
Karin Freyova
Freyova has received back-to-back Dubai Health Champions and is the favourite to win her third in a row.
- She additionally had the highest end out of the sector within the Semifinals this 12 months after taking fourth within the French Throwdown.
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Matilda Garnes
Garnes was a member of Group Peak 360 and completed third on the CrossFit Video games this 12 months.
- In her first competitors as a person after the CrossFit Video games, she had a dominant victory on the Belgrade Video games, ending within the high two in all six occasions.
In her final look in Dubai, Garnes completed second in 2022.
Elisa Fuliano
The Italian completed fifth in her first look within the Dubai Health Championship final 12 months.
- On the Belgrade Video games final month, Fuliano received the ultimate 4 occasions on her approach to a second-place end behind Garnes.
Linda Keesman
The 2024 CrossFit Video games rookie earned a Nineteenth-place end in Fort Value, TX this summer season.
- Trying again at Semifinals, her seventh-place efficiency on the French Throwdown would have been ok for ninth on a mixed, international Semifinals leaderboard, forward of all different Dubai rivals apart from Karin Freyova.
Anikha Greer
The younger Canadian missed the CrossFit Video games by 1 level in 2024 and three factors in 2023 on the North America East Semifinals.
- These shut calls have overshadowed the profitable low season campaigns she’s had lately.
In 2023, Greer had second place completed in each the Down Beneath Championship and the Madrid Championship beating a number of Video games athletes alongside the way in which.
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Kristin Holte and Jamie Simmonds, 2019 CrossFit Video games podium finishers, are again on the person flooring collectively this week.
- Holte introduced her retirement after her fourth-place end on the 2021 CrossFit Video games.
Simmonds’ final particular person Video games look was in 2023 when she completed seventeenth. 2023 CrossFit video games rookie, Emily De Rooy is again on the person flooring after profitable the CrossFit Video games staff competitors with Mayhem Thunder.
Podium Picks
- Karin Freyova
- Anikha Greer
- Matilda Garnes
Males’s Division
The lads’s discipline isn’t as deep as the ladies’s in terms of elite competitors expertise.
- It does nonetheless have various athletes on the upswing of their careers, which is able to make all of the motion on the competitors flooring attention-grabbing.
Moritz Fiebig
Fiebig took an enormous step ahead in 2023 along with his Twenty first-place end on the CrossFit Video games. Fiebig withdrew from the 2024 Video games following the tragedy in Occasion 1.
- Final month, Fiebig received the Belgrade Video games impressively by taking first in 4 out of the six occasions.
In 2022, Fiebig completed second within the Dubai Health Championship. That 12 months, he had the identical variety of factors because the winner, Fabián Beneito Sellés, however misplaced the tiebreak for the highest spot.
Luka Đukić
Ðukić was on his approach to a profession 12 months till tragedy struck and he misplaced his brother Lazar on the 2024 CrossFit Video games.
- Đukić received the UAE Storm Video games earlier this 12 months earlier than a formidable fifth-place end on the French Throwdown.
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In his first competitors again because the Video games, he completed third on the Belgrade Video games. Đukić earned his invitation to this 12 months’s Dubai Health Championship by profitable the net qualifier.
Calum Clements
The Spaniard is one among solely two athletes within the discipline at Dubai to complete within the high 20 on the CrossFit Video games after ending twentieth earlier this 12 months.
- From an offseason competitors perspective, in 2022, Clements completed sixth on the Madrid Championship. The sector at Madrid that 12 months included seven different athletes who’ve since competed on the CrossFit Video games.
Spencer Panchik
The Panchik twin has the perfect CrossFit Video games profession end amongst all of the male athletes competing in Dubai this 12 months. He completed seventeenth in 2023.
- His twentieth place displaying in 2022 is tied with Calum Clements because the second-best end on the Video games amongst this Dubai discipline.
Whereas Panchik has had a disappointing 2024 up to now, he has the confirmed means to complete the 12 months off robust.
Bronislaw Olenkowicz
“Massive Bron” is the oldest man within the discipline in Dubai, however can nonetheless throw down with the children.
- He is just one 12 months eliminated from his career-best Twenty sixth-place end on the CrossFit Video games.
Final month, Olenkowicz completed second on the Belgrade Video games, behind Moritz Fiebig.
In his first 12 months as a Masters athlete, Olenkowicz completed third within the 35-39 division on the Masters CrossFit Video games by Legends.
Podium Picks
- Moritz Fiebig
- Luka Đukić
- Calum Clements
The Prize Purse
Whereas the sector make-up may be totally different, the competitors will probably be fierce.
The Dubai Health Championship has one of many high prize purses within the sport. With podium finishers taking dwelling $50,000 for first, $30,000 for second, and $20,000 for third, there’s loads of purpose for athletes to go all out.
- Even the athletes who aren’t in rivalry for the rostrum have a purpose to go for broke on their wheelhouse occasions.
The highest three finishers in every occasion will obtain a money prize of $1,500, $1,000, and $750.
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